[Samba] Questions about file system support in Samba

[andy liebman]

smitty at essnjay.com wrote:
> I tried to access these shares from Windows XP Pro SP2 and got identical
> results.  Ext3 filesystems smaller than 2 GB work fine.  Anything bigger
> than 2 GB and xfs filesystems of any size fails. 
> 
> I guess I'm going to have to resort to reading code, posting on bugzilla as
> a bug and maybe switching to a Windows based server.  I really need to get
> this system up and doing its intended job.
> 
> I'd really like to hear from someone that they are actually exporting ext3
> filesystems larger than 2 GB and xfs filesystems and it's working.  If
> they're doing so with the Fedora core 4 release, that would definitely point
> to something strange here.  
> 
> Smitty
> Hibbard T. Smith, JR
> smitty at essnjay.com
>  
>
> 
Samba works fine with xfs. I have xfs volumes up to 12 TB on a Mandriva 
system and export Samba shares on that volume without issue.

Andy